#damn thing

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa. ↗

— Art Blakey

#america #american #art #art form #connect

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing. ↗

— Dan Blocker

#daddy #damn #damn thing #good #hitch

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#bundle #come #damn #damn thing #dry

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#damn #damn thing #everything #football #free

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#blank #blank page #damn #damn thing #doing

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock. ↗

— Howard Keel

#cheap #damn #damn thing #did #film

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#accounting #collars #cost #damn #damn thing

We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. ↗

— Jerome Robbins

#damn thing #doing #goddamn #know #novices

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#change #damn #damn thing #did #got